Museums Study Guide

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the Louvre 19x 10.5% stumper $368 avg J:6 DJ:13

J $100 1995 In the 17th c. you could find Mona Lisa in Louis XIV's suite; now she "hangs around" here

DJ $800 2019 Most of the surviving French crown jewels reside in the Galerie d'Apollon in this Paris museum

DJ $1,200 2009 This museum with a heap of Delacroixes put on the show "Delacroix and the Companions of His Youth"

the Prado 14x $600 avg J:6 DJ:7 FJ:1

J $200 1998 This Spanish museum's paintings are displayed in 2 buildings: The Villanueva Building & the Cason del Buen Retiro

DJ $800 2022 "The Naked Maja" by Goya & "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Bosch:this Madrid museum

DJ $1,200 2021 In 1819 this Madrid museum opened to the public as the Royal Museum of Painting

the British Museum 12x 8.3% stumper $575 avg J:1 DJ:11

DJ $200 1996 This London museum's Department of Egyptian Antiquities houses the famous Rosetta Stone

J $500 DD 1998 Museum in which you'll find the Rosetta Stone & the Elgin Marbles

DJ $1,200 2004 Karl Marx is said to have written & dined in the Museum Tavern, across from this world-famous museum

the Guggenheim 12x 36.4% stumper $1,182 avg J:7 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 2009 (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Bilbao, Spain.)This foundation has two of the world's most architecturally innovative museums, in New York&herein Bilbao, Spain

J $600 2011 Manet's "Before the Mirror" & Monet's "Palazzo Ducale" are in this unique NYC circular building

J $1,000 2023 The New York City museum named for this man holds one of the world's largest collections of paintings by Vasily Kandinsky

The Rijksmuseum 12x 50.0% stumper $1,117 avg J:5 DJ:7

J $400 1999 In 1885 this Amsterdam art museum moved to its present structure which was designed by P.J.H. Cuypers

DJ $600 2001 It houses the largest collection of art in the Netherlands

J $1,000 2004 During its remodeling it moved "The Night Watch" from the main hall to the new Philips Wing

the Hermitage 9x 22.2% stumper $711 avg J:5 DJ:4

J $300 1992 The exhibition halls in this Leningrad museum total over 10 miles in length

J $500 1985 Visitors were once required to wear court costume at this Leningrad museum

J $1,000 2011 Titian's "St. Sebastian" & "Danae" are at this St. Petersburg museum known for its arsenal

Chicago 8x 12.5% stumper $1,025 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $200 2025 If you're brave enough, there's an Interactive Medieval Torture Museum not far from the Field Museum in this city

J $500 1996 Edward Kemeys designed the bronze lions guarding the main entrance to the art institute of this Midwest city

DJ $1,600 2020 Grant Wood's "American Gothic" resides at the Art Institute of this city, built for the Columbian Exposition of 1893

the Smithsonian 8x $275 avg J:4 DJ:4

DJ $200 1993 The Cooper-Hewitt Museum became part of this Washington-based institution in 1968

J $500 1993 This institution's National Museum of Design is not in Washington but in the Carnegie Mansion in New York City

DJ $400 1993 Opened in 1858, the U.S. National Museum was the first of this institution's museums

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Oslo 7x $586 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 1998 1,200-year-old Viking ships are on display at the Vikingskiphuset in this Norwegian capital

J $500 1996 A statue of King Olav V on skis stands near the Holmenkollen Ski Museum in this capital

J $1,000 2009 Edvard Munch Museum, Ski Museum

New Orleans 7x $257 avg J:3 DJ:4

J $100 1996 The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar on display

J $100 1995 The Old Mint in this city features jazz & Mardi Gras memorabilia

DJ $200 1994 The Louisiana State Museum is housed partly in several buildings in this city's French Quarter

the Uffizi 7x $1,514 avg DJ:7

DJ $1,000 1995 Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" is among the masterpieces at this Florence museum

DJ $1,000 1994 This Florentine museum has a Botticelli room containing "The Birth of Venus" & many of his other works

DJ $1,000 1993 This art gallery in Florence, Italy was originally built to be the Medicis' office

the Metropolitan Museum of Art 7x $500 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $300 1989 This NYC art museum has acquired over 1,000 musical instruments since 1980

DJ $600 1994 The Cloisters, a branch of this New York City museum, is devoted to art of the Middle Ages

J $400 2006 5 of the fewer than 40 known Vermeers reside in this 5th Avenue museum

Amsterdam 6x $600 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 2009 Anne Frank House, Rijksmuseum

DJ $1,600 2018 Naturally, this city famed for its Red Light District also has the adults-only Sex Museum on Damrak Street

DJ $400 2008 The Rijksmuseum is an art museum in this city

the Getty Museum 5x $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $600 1993 This Malibu, California museum, named for its oil magnate founder, is the world's richest

DJ $2,000 2002 Van Gogh's "Irises" is one of the famous paintings at this L.A. museum that opened in a new location in 1997

J $800 2002 The Beachside branch of this Ca. museum endowed by an oil tycoon is modeled on the Villa Dei Papiri of ancient Rome

the Field Museum 5x 25.0% stumper $625 avg J:2 DJ:2 FJ:1

DJ $400 DD 2005 Bushman, a famous gorilla who once lived at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, lives on forever at this nearby museum

J $500 1994 This natural history museum's original name was the Columbian Museum of Chicago

DJ $1,000 2001 What was once the Chicago Natural History Museum is now called this, after its founder

Pablo Picasso 5x 20.0% stumper $840 avg DJ:5

DJ $200 2001 2 old palaces in Barcelona house a museum of this cubist's works

DJ $800 2006 The Paris museum devoted to this cubist has 200 of his paintings & many pieces from his personal art collection

DJ $1,600 2005 This influential artist said of some Aboriginal art in Sydney's museum, "This is what I have been trying to achieve"

Georgia O'Keeffe 5x 20.0% stumper $1,440 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2018 The museum created for this woman also maintains her home & studio in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 60 miles away

J $1,000 2008 In 1997 a museum devoted to this artist opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico

DJ $3,000 DD 2024 Her story is told in 9 galleries through photos, drawings, paintings & personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe

Andy Warhol 5x 40.0% stumper $1,340 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 2015 This pop artist's museum opened in 1994 & is one of the 4 Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

DJ $800 2015 Here's an early work by this artist, from the Pittsburgh museum that's devoted to him

J $1,000 DD 2002 The museum devoted to this pop artist is in Pittsburgh, where he went to college

the Victoria and Albert Museum 5x 66.7% stumper $533 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:2

DJ $400 1990 For "the improvement of public taste in design", Prince Albert helped to start this museum

J $800 2023 This London museum with 2 first names is renowned for its collection of decorative arts

FJ 2025 Located on Cromwell Road & home to more than 2.8 million objects, it bears in part the name of a cousin of a British queen

the Holocaust Museum 4x $900 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 2001 A national memorial, the Hall of Remembrance is part of this Washington D.C. museum

DJ $1,000 1996 James I. Freed's design for this Washington museum includes elements of concentration camp architecture

DJ $800 2017 This museum in Washington, D.C. includes a Hall of Witness & a Hall of Remembrance

Surfing 4x $325 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1999 You can see old-time longboards at Huntington Beach, California's museum of this sport

J $300 2001 The Huntington Beach International Museum of this sport covers its history in music & memorabilia

DJ $400 2017 Catch a wave to Oceanside, California, where you can visit a museum devoted to this sport

Pittsburgh 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2025 A former mattress warehouse is now a Museum of Contemporary Art in this Pennsylvania city

J $1,000 2011 The Carnegie Museums

DJ $800 1996 The Frick Art Museum & Sarah Scaife Gallery are high points of this Pennsylvania city

Nevada 4x 50.0% stumper $1,200 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1993 This state's state museum is in the old Carson Mint building across the street from a casino

DJ $1,200 2007 The Liberace Museum, the Atomic Testing Museum

J $400 2006 There's a 1941 Crosley at this state's National Automobile Museum, built on Bill Harrah's collection

Munich 4x $800 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $600 1994 The Bavarian National Museum in this city is known for its Krippenschau collection of nativity scenes

J $1,000 2011 This city's Bavarian National Museum was created in 1855 by Maximilian II to preserve Bavaria's artistic treasures

DJ $800 1995 This Bavarian city's Marstallmuseum features a sleigh that belonged to Mad King Ludwig

Mozart 4x $550 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1997 Several museums in Salzburg house collections of this "Magic Flute" composer's manuscripts

DJ $1,200 2015 In Salzburg you can visit the house where he was born & see such mementos as his childhood violin & his clavichord

J $400 2002 Bertramka Villa in Prague, a museum devoted to this "Don Giovanni" composer, has his harpsichord on display

Gene Autry 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1997 This singing movie cowboy's Western Heritage Museum in Los Angeles has memorabilia from his films

DJ $800 2008 The Museum of the American West in Los Angeles is part of the complex named for this singing cowboy

J $200 1995 This singing cowboy has a western heritage museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park

Florence 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $200 1991 This city's Museum of Gems features 16 rooms filled with items owned by the Medicis

J $600 2009 Uffizi Gallery, Bardini Museum

DJ $800 2022 The Bargello in this city has had many uses over the centuries; for a while, it was Leonardo da Vinci's dad's office

Casey Jones 4x $475 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 2000 In 2000 Jackson, Tennessee's Railroad Museum celebrates the centennial of this engineer's heroic deed

J $1,000 2003 You can buy RR souvenirs at the Tennessee home where this engineer lived at the time of his 1900 death

J $300 1994 The Jackson, Tennessee home of this famed railroad engineer is maintained as a museum

Akron 4x $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $200 1993 Ohio city that's home to the Goodyear World of Rubber Museum

DJ $800 1998 Looking for blimp collectibles? You'll find them at Goodyear's World of Rubber in this Ohio city

J $400 1995 The Goodyear World of Rubber in this city has exhibits depicting the history of rubber

The Vatican 4x $400 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 1989 Included in this group of museums & galleries is the Gregorian Etruscan Museum begun by Pope Gregory XVI

DJ $800 2013 Its museums include the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art & the Room of the Immaculate Conception

FJ 1998 Its museums include the Borgia Apartments, the Etruscan Museum & the Raphael Rooms

Vincent Van Gogh 4x $375 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 2003 The museum of this 19th C. Dutch-born painter is on an Amsterdam street named for 17th C. painter Paulus Potter

J $600 2023 One of the most famous paintings at LA's Getty Center Museum is this artist's"Irises"

J $300 1993 His "The Starry Night" is one of the stellar attractions in New York City's Museum of Modern Art

the Museum of Modern Art 4x 75.0% stumper $450 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $400 2015 of this, on NYC's 53rd street since 1932

J $500 1994 Picasso's "Guernica", now in Madrid, hung in this U.S. Museum from 1939 to 1981

J $500 1990 Van Gogh's "Starry Night" & some of Monet's water lily paintings hang here in Midtown Manhattan

MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art) 4x 25.0% stumper $1,925 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2012 Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time

DJ $800 1997 Nelson Rockefeller was president of this NYC art museum 1939-1941 & 1946-1953

DJ $1,600 2004 While this Manhattan museum is renovated, the exhibits are on display in Queens

the National Air & Space Museum 4x $200 avg J:1 FJ:3

J $200 2017 Check out the 1903 Wright Flyer & an Apollo lunar module at this Smithsonian spot

FJ 2012 For 2010 & 2011, it's gotten more visitors than any other single museum in the U.S.

FJ 2019 President Johnson signed a law that added 2 words to the name of this museum established in 1946, D.C.'s most popular

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